Shiraki Chiyo

"Akibastar Crystal Power, Switch on! Pretty Idol of love and music! I'm Sashihara Rino the 11th!"

- Sasshi's first introduction as successor

Chiyo Shiraki is a member of AKB0048's Team K and one of AKB0048's current successors. She's known as Sashihara Rino the 11th (11 ).

She is also and commonly known as Sasshi (さっしー), Sashiko (さしこ) and WhiteGhost. She's an anime and manga otaku and WOTA, generally being a huge Magical Girl fan. Being known for her lazyness and low stamina, she is known for being fun and variety orientated, as well as her different relationships to several members.

Appearance
Sasshi is quite known for her appearance. She has shoulder length, smooth hair which is dyed into the colour white. Her eyes are silver and she has some not really visible heart-shaped light reflections in them. As well, another star-like reflection is visible. Her skin is very pale. Her hair is dyed and her eyes are using contacts. Her natural hair color is a light brown hue and her eyes are actually turquoise.

Sasshi always wears white clothes. She believes that she doesn’t look good in other colors. Due to this, she’s mostly never seen with clothes with special pattern. Usually, she’s wearing her hair down. It doesn’t seem that she’s taking much care on her hair as the dying isn’t very good for her hair.

While the auditions for the 153rd Generation, she had purple hair. This was because Miyagi shot her while playing paintball. After the audition, she quickly changed her hair color back.

After succeeding, it's notable that she sometimes doesn't wear color contacts all the time. However, due to her bad eye sight (which she constantly compares to a bat), she likely still wears contacts to correct it. Sometimes, she still wears silver-colored contacts, out of habit or because she thinks that it fits better. However, on the majority of official images, she never wears them.

Personality
In different to her stamina, Sasshi's an outgoing and positive-thinking girl. She tends to comment things with sarcasm. In the beginning, Sasshi appeard rather cold towards other which changed quickly when she joined AKB0048. She tends to dream a bit about anime and manga - especially about Magical Girl. Sasshi adores them and wants to be like them. Sasshi tends to think a bit too realistic, even though she has no problems with not-saying it. Due to this, she might appear arrogant. As well, she tends to lose attention of her surrounding whenever being part of an interessting situation. She is afraid of bugs and tends to shout out loud if surprised.

Sasshi spends almost her full free time with anime, manga, video games and the internet. She isn't interested at sport at all and in the past years, she didn't do anything into this direction, causing her body to be very weak. She's quite good in changing her voice, even thought she isn't a great singer. Thought it's unknown when, Sasshi once hacked the official AKB0048 website as stated here. She loves her computer a lot, and it's named Lola (ローラー).

Sasshi is generally known to be very lazy and not a friend of fast songs. Thus, she holds a great dislike towards the fact that she's member of Team K. Ironically, she is a front girl in the team and even centered the first original song of the team. Her mind hasn't changed though and she constantly tries to get a transfer to Team A. As well, Sasshi doesn't consider people as traitor in the regular sense but when they don't tell (or agree with) her which she would want to know/them to agree.

Unlike other members, emotional performances don't improve her radiance a lot. Performing in a Magical Girl costume or similar is a bigger impact.

Skills
Sasshi likely is the member with the lowest stamina in AKB. Despite having improved, she still becomes exausted very quickly and has problems with performing a whole stage if there weren't breaks. Her dance skills are far below average.

Sasshi is an average singer. While her singing skills don't meet the level of professional singers, her voice is rather good for idols. Sasshi has no problems with lipsyncing thanks to previous experience with fandubs. She generally is already experienced a bit in terms of voice acting and would like to pursue this career in the future.

Sasshi has got a vast knowledge about anime, manga and video games. She knows a lot of anime, espacilly magical girl anime and many trivial facts about those. She is a rather skilled gamer as well. Next to gaming, she generally knows a lot about computers, programming and the internet. She types very fast.

History
Sasshi never left Akibastar as she grew there up. Already as children, she loved anime and manga. She always dreamed about being a magical by herself. In the third year of elementary school, Sasshi had started spending her full free time with this and lost her friends who weren't interested in that anymore. With the time, Sasshi developted plans which allowed her to stay home and learn there. She used a webcam to follow the lessons even though she was able to learn more as she wasn't distracted by others. This also caused her low stamina.

When she turned 13, her parents started believing that this couldn't turn out good for Sasshi and they wanted her to live regularly. But they needed a reason. As both of her parents were active WOTAs and knew that Sasshi liked 0048 too, they introduced her the idea of auditioning. Sasshi did so because she believed her chances to join to be at zero. She passed the first round.

Team History
152nd Generation → 152nd Generation & Team K → Team K
 * Joining the 152nd Generation of Trainees (SC0123.07.14)
 * Promoted to Team K (Halloween Shuffle) (SC0123.10.31)
 * Succeeded and subsequently left the 152nd Generation (SC0124.09.04)

Etymology
Shiraki is written as.

can be translated as white and as tree.

Chiyo is written as.

can be translated as 1000 and can be translated as generation or years.

Sasshi doesn't like it to be called "Sashihara-Senpai" or "Sashihara-san". Aside of Sasshi (さっしー) and Sashiko (さしこ), the nickname, she inherited from the original member, she is also often called WhiteGhost, her mainly used username in social media networks, and Tomato-Ghost (トマートー・ゴースト) by Honoka. Miyagi calls her Canvas (キャンバス).

Quotes

 * "Nice to meet you. I am Shiraki Chiyo, don't ask why I look like a ghost. " - Introduction Catchphrase as Trainee
 * "I love anime three times more then food! - In Stage one 3.0 Kenkyuusei Dreams Third launch!
 * "The sun is not natural, its light does not come from a screen! " - In Stage one 3.0 Kenkyuusei Dreams Third launch!

Other Artworks
For other pictures, please refer Sasshi's Category.

Trivia

 * Favourite Song in the New Era: Ie
 * Favourite Anime: X - Other Self
 * Audition Song: To Say
 * Favorite Food: Everything White
 * Favorite Animal: Computer Bugs, Butterfly Images
 * Favorite Colour: #C01B67 (Pink) and #FFFFFF (White)
 * Hobbies: Anime, Manga, Video Games, Annyoing Hikari-san
 * Penlight Colour: White
 * Charm Point: Uniqueness
 * Sasshi's voice actress was chosen because she voiced Shiro in No Game No Life.
 * It's very possible that Sasshi is based on Shiro as she shares some aspects of her appearance with her.
 * Her character song is named after the anime.
 * Her original planned name was Chori. This was changed because of various reasons.
 * Her autograph as kenkyuusei included a butterfly.
 * Her kirara is a pink butterfly.
 * In her room is a promotional poster for the AKB0048 Anime and several other Anime.
 * Sasshi did not aim to succeed Kojima Haruna seriously. She simply wanted a magical girl rod.
 * Sasshi's mobile phone has been taken away by Hikari since the Shuffle.
 * However, it seems like she either has gotten it back or that she has gotten herself a new one.
 * It was stated that she had at least about 9 phones while being a member of 0048.
 * She has developed a tendency to include some English words (or abbreviations) in her speeches.
 * As well, she has started to use "Yo!" as greeting-phrase and in similar situations. Yo is also the second part of her given name.
 * The main reason why her favorite song is Ruby is the same-named programming language Ruby.
 * Sasshi has a dislike towards heartings and hot climate overall, but she can't stand cold climate either.
 * She lacks of Vitamin D.
 * Despite the fact that Akibastar doesn't have a real sun, Sasshi often cares a parasol with her.
 * For an unknown reason, not even her parents are allowed to enter her room at home. She is very sensetive when talking about this.
 * She dislikes capsing.
 * In SC0124, her sousenkyo poster was a Cure White (Futari wa Pretty Cure) cosplay.
 * In SC0125, her sousenkyo poster was a White Ghost (Protocol Magi :ORIGINS) cosplay. Originally, it was supposed to be a Sailor Moon cosplay.